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EpochX vs. Luma: start with your CRM or your community?

Written by Evan Yang

Last reviewed August 2026

The short answer

Luma is very good at getting an event online quickly and helping a community find it. EpochX tackles a different job: helping B2B field and event marketing teams decide who should be in the room, run the event, and connect the results back to the CRM.

Choose EpochX if your events are built around target accounts and expected to influence pipeline. Choose Luma if you care most about low cost, public discovery, and community engagement.

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Two good tools for two different ways of running events

Events as part of your revenue strategy

Choose EpochX when:

You need to report on pipeline

EpochX is being developed to show the opportunities each event sourced or influenced, without forcing marketers to piece the story together across several tools.

The guest list starts in your CRM

Use account, deal, territory, enrichment, and relationship data to work out who should be invited before registration opens.

Many people create events across the company

Organization-level templates, permissions, standard forms, and brand controls help keep every event consistent.

You want AI to handle the repetitive setup

EpochX is building AI-assisted workflows for event pages, communications, agendas, and tracking, all within company-approved guardrails.

Your registration paths are not one-size-fits-all

Conditional logic, multiple forms, ticketing, and embedded meeting booking are in development.

You want a say in what gets built

Design partners work directly with the EpochX team to shape the workflows their programs need.

Speed, reach, and community matter most

Choose Luma when:

You run community events

Luma's Free plan supports unlimited events and guests, with up to 500 invites per week after verification. Plus raises the weekly allowance to 5,000.

You want to launch quickly and spend little

Event pages, ticketing, payments, reminders, and check-in are included on the Free plan.

You rely on organic discovery

Public listings, city and category pages, calendars, subscriptions, and recommendations help new people find your events.

You want built-in attendee messaging

Depending on the plan and send limits, Luma supports email, SMS, push notifications, and WhatsApp.

You sell tickets

Luma supports multiple ticket types and payment methods, group purchases, coupons, and approval-gated paid tickets.

You need event activity sent to your CRM

Luma Enterprise can push event data into HubSpot and Salesforce.

EpochX vs. Luma, capability by capability

What changes when the event starts in your CRM

Best fit

EpochX

B2B field and event marketing teams focused on account engagement and pipeline

Luma

Community hosts, public event organizers, and teams that want simple event creation and distribution

Audience planning

EpochX

Builds invite strategies around account, deal, territory, enrichment, and relationship context from the CRM

Luma

Contacts can be added manually or imported through CSV, Excel, API, or Zapier workflows

Registration

EpochX

Conditional logic, multiple forms, ticketing, and embedded meeting booking are in development

Luma

Supports ticket types, group registration, coupons, approvals, waitlists, token gating, and custom questions; conditional logic is not supported

Event pages

EpochX

AI-assisted event hubs built to company brand guidelines are in development

Luma

Standardized, theme-based pages; no documented AI creation workflow; custom event URLs require Plus

Communications

EpochX

AI-generated communications, automated sequences, and cross-channel outreach tracking are in development

Luma

Email, SMS, push, and WhatsApp; Free includes up to 500 weekly invites or newsletters after verification, while Plus includes 5,000

Community and discovery

EpochX

Not a core product focus

Luma

Public discovery, location and category pages, featured events, calendars, followers, memberships, referrals, and newsletters

CRM integration

EpochX

Native CRM sync connects event activity with CRM records and campaigns; integration depth continues to expand

Luma

Native one-way HubSpot and Salesforce integrations through Enterprise; API and Zapier access require Plus

Onsite capabilities

EpochX

Check-in plus booth and onsite lead capture through an iPad or kiosk, feeding the event record and CRM

Luma

Check-in is included on the Free plan

Pipeline reporting

EpochX

Sourced and influenced pipeline reporting is in development, with connections to sales, marketing, and data platforms

Luma

Registration and attendance data can support attribution after it reaches the connected CRM

Organizer AI

EpochX

AI-assisted event assets and communications within company-controlled templates and guardrails are in development

Luma

No comparable AI event-creation workflow appeared on the official pages reviewed

Team governance

EpochX

Organization-level templates, permissions, standard forms, and brand guardrails

Luma

Unlimited cohosts and event managers on Free; calendar admin limits vary by plan; organizations, SSO, audit controls, and custom sending domains require Enterprise

Pricing

EpochX

Not publicly available

Luma

Free; Plus at $59 per month billed annually; custom Enterprise pricing

Where EpochX wins

01 · Who gets invited

EpochX builds the guest list around the accounts that matter.

Luma lets organizers import contacts, invite previous guests, and bring in lists through its API or Zapier. For many events, that is plenty.

EpochX puts audience planning earlier in the process. Before a registration page exists, marketers can use account, deal, territory, enrichment, and relationship context to decide which companies matter and who has the best reason to invite them.

Both platforms can hold an invite list. EpochX helps build the list in the first place.

Account tier
Deal stage
Territory
Relationship

Best-fit guest list

02 · What happens after attendance

EpochX connects attendance to accounts, opportunities, and pipeline.

Luma's Enterprise integrations automatically send registration and attendance data one way into HubSpot or Salesforce. From there, teams can use the CRM's campaign reporting and attribution tools.

EpochX keeps CRM context attached throughout the event workflow. Native sourced and influenced pipeline reporting is also in development, so marketers can see event impact from inside the platform rather than reconstructing it after the fact.

The practical question is where you want measurement to happen: downstream in the CRM, or inside the event workflow itself.

184

Attended

37

Influenced

11

Sourced

03 · What AI actually does

EpochX speeds up event creation while keeping every detail on-brand.

We did not find an AI event-creation workflow in the Luma pricing pages or Help Center. Luma's strength is simpler: creating an event manually is already fast.

EpochX is using AI for the repetitive work around an event, including pages, emails, agendas, and tracking. Those outputs sit inside templates and guardrails set by the organization, so teams can move faster without inventing the format or voice every time.

Create an executive dinner for fintech leaders in Chicago.
Event page
Email sequence
Agenda
Tracking

04 · How much structure the program needs

EpochX is built for B2B registration with more moving parts.

Luma supports ticket types, approvals, waitlists, group registration, registration questions, and token gating. It does not support conditional logic, and questions cannot vary by ticket type.

EpochX is developing different registration paths, multiple forms, embedded meeting booking, and organization-level controls for B2B programs that need them.

If the goal is to publish an event quickly, Luma's simplicity is an advantage. If prospects, customers, speakers, and other attendee groups need different experiences, EpochX offers more room to structure them.

Attendee type
Prospect
Customer
Speaker

Where Luma is stronger

01

Community distribution

Luma is not only an event tool. It is also a network where people can browse by location or category, follow calendars, subscribe to updates, refer friends, and discover featured events. EpochX is focused on selected accounts and contacts, not public event discovery.

02

A generous free product

Luma is easy to try and inexpensive to keep using. Its deliberately lean feature set makes it a particularly good fit for events that do not need deep CRM context, conditional registration, or pipeline reporting.

03

Self-serve maturity

Luma has a mature self-serve experience and a clear path from Free to Enterprise. Larger teams can add organizations, SSO, audit controls, CRM integrations, custom sending domains, and dedicated support. EpochX is newer, and several parts of the product are still being developed with design partners.

Luma vs. EpochX: integrations and CRM sync

Both connect to the CRM, but at different points in the workflow

EpochX

EpochX connects event activity to the relevant CRM records and campaigns automatically. HubSpot sync is available today; Salesforce support and deeper two-way workflows are part of the design-partner scope.* The integration is intended to cover the full sequence, from audience planning and invitations through registration, attendance, and follow-up.

Luma

Luma's Enterprise integrations send events, contacts, registrations, and attendance one way into HubSpot or Salesforce. Activity created before the integration was connected is not backfilled.

Plus customers can build additional workflows with Zapier or the Luma API.

CRM contextInvite listEventAttendancePipeline

*Confirm current availability, supported objects, sync direction, and CRM parity during the design-partner process.

Frequently asked questions

The questions teams ask before switching

Is EpochX better than Luma?

For every kind of event? No. For B2B teams that plan around target accounts and measure events against pipeline, EpochX is the more specialized product. Luma is the stronger choice for fast event creation, public discovery, ticketing, community engagement, and low-cost self-service.

What is the difference between EpochX and Luma?

Luma starts with the event: create a page, open registration, distribute it, message attendees, and manage check-in. Enterprise customers can then send event activity into HubSpot or Salesforce. EpochX starts one step earlier, with the accounts, deals, and relationships already in the CRM. That context carries through invitations, registration, execution, follow-up, and pipeline reporting.

Is Luma suitable for B2B events?

Yes. Luma can run private B2B events with approval-gated registration, tickets, attendee communications, check-in, and CRM integrations. The distinction is not whether Luma can run a B2B event. It can. The distinction is what the platform is optimized for. Luma serves a broad range of event and community use cases; EpochX focuses on the audience-planning and pipeline needs of B2B field and event marketing teams.

Which product is cheaper?

Luma is cheaper to start. Its Free plan supports unlimited events and guests, while Plus costs $59 per month when billed annually. EpochX pricing is not public and is discussed directly with prospective design partners.

Can EpochX replace Luma?

For a B2B field or event marketing team that needs CRM-led audience planning, structured registration, organization-level governance, AI-assisted creation, and pipeline reporting, that is exactly the role EpochX is intended to fill. Teams that mainly need free event pages, public discovery, ticket sales, and built-in attendee messaging may be better served by Luma.

Who should choose Luma instead of EpochX?

Choose Luma if the priority is getting a public event online quickly at little or no cost. Its registration model is straightforward, attendee messaging is built in, and the platform can send event activity into a CRM on the Enterprise plan. For community events and public gatherings, that may be everything you need. Choose EpochX when the harder questions come before and after registration: Which accounts belong in the room? Who should invite them? What happened to those accounts afterward? And what did the event contribute to pipeline?

The bottom line

EpochX is built for events that begin with accounts and end with pipeline. Luma is built for events that begin with a community.

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How we researched this comparison

This comparison uses publicly available information from Luma's pricing page, Help Center, registration documentation, HubSpot integration, Salesforce integration, and Enterprise overview as of August 2026. Products and prices change, so confirm current capabilities and commercial terms with each vendor.